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J. W. BURK. FLOUR AND CEREAL TESTING CASE.

No. 447,661. Patented Mar. 3, 1891.

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JOHN XV. BURK, OF COLDWATER, MICHIGAN.

FLOUR AND CEREAL TESTING CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 447,661, dated March 3, 1891.

Application filed July 19, 1839.

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. BURK, acitizen of the United States, residing at Coldwater, in the county of Branch and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flour and Cereal Testing Cases; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and eXact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which forma part of this specification.

This invention relates to flour and cereal testing cabinets for receiving the appliances necessary to make the ordinary tests to ascertain if the flour is up to the standard in strength and color and free from specks and foreign substances, and for holding samples of the standard flour and receiving the waste flour after making the tests in different compartments, the good our being dumped in one receptacle or drawer and the bad or indifferent flour being dumped into a separate receptacle or drawer. Provision is also had for storing samples of flour from other mills, and for such samples as are taken out during the night for inspection in the morning.

The improvement consists in the novel features, which will be hereinafter more fully described'and claimed, and which are shown in the annexed drawings, in which-- Figure l is a perspective view, parts being broken away, of a cabinet embodying my invention, the top being thrown up and the dough-board being partly drawn out. Fig. 2 is a detail section of the upper part -of the case on the line a: xof Fig. l, showing the top closed.

The cabinet comprises the back A, sides B and C, bottom D, and top E, the latter being hinged to the back A, substantially as shown in Fig. l, so as to open from the inspector, the dough-board F, wastedrawers G and H, testing-board I, doughingadrawer J, dip-test drawer K, sample-drawers L, and closet M.

The waste-drawers G and H are at the top of the cabinet, and are closed by the hinged top E. The double-inclined cleat g and the Serial No. 317,970. (No model.)

single-inclined cleats 71 placed over the edges of the drawers G and H, prevent the lodgment of flour on the said edges and direct the iour into the said drawers.

The testing-board I is supported on the end cleats 71., and is divided into sections, each section being numbered or lettered to corretakes his iilled board back to the case for inspection and comparison, and if any reel-is not up to the standard, by having a hole in the bolting-cloth or otherwise, he sees at once, by having it placed over the reel number, which reel itis, and proceeds at once to remedy the defect at the proper point to bring this flour upto the standard. rThe sectional numbered testing-board is also used for testing samples of different numbers by using the same number of sample on the same number of section on the board its identity is retained. The mortisesz' in the ends of the testingboard are to let the waste flour through into the drawers G and H.

The doughing shelf or board F, placed be tween the waste-drawers G and H and the testing-drawers J and K, is adapted to slide in and out and is the full depth and width of the cabinet. The dough and tests made from the dip test-drawer on the glass plates are placed on the board for comparative tests or drying out.

The doughing-shelfjl in the drawer J is supported on cleats about half the depth of the draweigiand is loose, so it can be dumped or turned over to dislodge the iiour and dough which fall into'the drawer J. The dough or flour is placed on this shelf previous to testing its strength and color.

The dip-test drawer K is provided with cans N for holding water and with two narrow pieces of glass O for compressing the our on, one being the standard, the other the sample IOO to be tested. The cans are set in recesses 7.1 in the bottom oi' the drawer w, which prevent their upsetting.

Samples from other mills and samples taken 5 during' the night are placed in the closet M.

I claim- In a flour and Cereal testing cabinet, the combination,with the twoj uxtaposed drawers G and II in the same plane, and having the io double-inclined cross-bar g placed over the edges ofthe inner or adjacent sides of the said drawers, and having' the inclined crosshars 7L arranged over the edges oi' the outer 

